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Strengthen your feet to strengthen your dancing!
This video covers 3 impactful exercises you can do strengthen your feet to improve balance and stability.
Bonus pro tip almost no one discusses - TIGHTEN YOUR SHOES!
Think of them as ice skates and thereabouts is how tight they should feel. If you wobble in your shoes, you'll wobble when you dance!
If you've never ice-skated, your shoes should feel like really strong spanx firmly forming to and hugging your feet.
Flamenco 101 - Basic Sounds of Palmas
This video covers the two basic sounds of "Palmas," or in English, Flamenco clapping. It's a fundamental form of percussion and keeping the beat in Flamenco used by all; singers, dancers, guitarists and teachers.
Flamenco 101 - How to Practice Basic Palmas
This video covers how to start practicing your palmas so that you can make both sounds that we learned in the previous video evenly and consistently!
Flamenco 101 - Palmas por Tangos
This video introduces you to the rhythm of Tangos. You'll learn how to do the perfect palmas for tangos in a few easy to follow steps. Follow this advice and in a couple of weeks, you'll be able to add palmas por Tangos to your Flamenco Dance skills.
How to rehearse a new choreography
Here is a small demo of using a metronome in the palo of Alegrias to rehearse a new Flamenco dance choreography. In Flamenco dance classes you may learn the steps and use music, but when you get home and practice, a good way to really hear if you're in compass and see if your Flamenco dance technique is good is use a metronome, record yourself on camera and evaluate where you're at and what you can improve to make it better. Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.